David Pakman legitimately worried about Trump's PA crowd size

[Joe Cool]

18. Butler, PA resident here

The rally was pretty much the main headline in local news sources for about a week. You couldn't get away from hearing about it in the local and Pittsburgh press. The assassination attempt and the return to the farm show grounds was the biggest story of the year in Butler.
If Trump only got around 20,000 (it seems like that was the approximate size), that's not saying very much. He can't say there were thousands of people waiting outside the venue because there weren't.
Harris has had 20,000 people at rallies. If the best Trump can do was get 20,000 for a rally on a near perfect day that had been hyped up for weeks, that's not saying very much.
I actually drove around Butler about the time the rally started and you would have thought it was a typical late afternoon Saturday in October in Butler. Many of the people at the rally were from out-of-state. Every hotel in the Butler area had no vacancy for about a week before the rally, which would indicate many rally goers were from out-of-state.
Trump had a rally at the Butler airport in 2020 and about 15,000 was the estimate for that rally.

As someone who is from and lives in Butler, the crowd size isn't something to be worried about. Some guy in a studio speaking into microphone who is nowhere close to Butler isn't the authority he thinks he is on the subject.